Building Library 3.0

on twitter

2010-01-31T10:22:00.000-08:00

A mate of mine is in deep for Twitter. Sometimes it seems he kind of believes in it as a semi-salvific force. I came closest to his position at the height of the protests in Iran last year, when twitter was one of the few media by which folks in could communicate with us out.

But Woody don't twitter. I tried it for a while, but soon found that I felt like a dog being wagged by its tail. Libraries were starting to twitter big in the Spring and Summer, as I was finishing up the book... but I just never took twitter seriously enough to give it serious discussion in Bldg3.0.

Ironically, when I started writing it in 2007, MySpace was still a big deal. Since it had been one of the hottest flashpoints of my professional life (and it came to be something of a symbol for what I thought we could try to do to reach out), I spend some time on it in the book, along with Facebook. Facebook's star continues to rise, but MySpace is understood to be something of an online trailerpark. Too bad. And since I've lived in trailerparks, I still kind of feel soft-n-warm toward MySpace culture.

The lessons and principles apply to other 2.0 venues.

good word from the Far North

2009-12-18T19:01:00.001-08:00

Thanks to Ms. Maje for the kindness.

http://vademe.blogspot.com/2009/11/interessant-lesing.html

review in Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France

2009-12-16T09:15:00.000-08:00

Joachim Schopfel says nice things about Building Library 3.0 (in French!) at BBF. Maybe I'm less in line with le modèle anglo-saxon and closer to something à la française than I thought... (despite picking on "French anglophobia" in an appendix of the book...). Thanks Joachim!

QR book to Web application: live

2009-08-19T07:47:00.000-07:00

QR Library application -- this is very homemade, very "beta" -- actually very "delta".

I've described it before: QR code slapped on a book, a patron uses their phone to snap a pic, QR pic takes them to whatever online resource you want them to see.

Here's an example:

Imagine you've just picked up this book in the library, "Chess and the Art of Negotiation", and noticed a QR barcode on it.

You use your gizmo (to which you have already loaded Semacode or Kaywa, etc.) to load the barcode and are taken here:

Hosted resources -- online forums, chess resources, similar books, available e-books, etc. etc. Plus a place for patron comments, so they can add resources you hadn't yet found/ thought of / or approved.

This is a "proof of concept". Sorry I can't give the direct URL yet. Hope you'll work up something like this on your own.

notes from web trawling, 18 Aug

2009-08-18T08:33:00.000-07:00

Web 3.0 Primer at Material World LA
Apparel News
... as well as other Web resources such as Zoho, EverNote and Jott.com will be the subject of a Web 3.0 workshop to be presented from 3 to 6 pm on Sept. ...
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The EntreTech Forum Announces ... 2009- 2010 Program Calendar
PR Newswire (press release)
December 15, 2009 Web 3.0: Where's the Value? January 19, 2010 When Angels Speak: Understanding the Angel Financing Process February 16, 2010 Greening of ...
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SEO meet up and its Future Potential
Best Syndication
And there are already talks of Web 3.0 in the pipeline. The future is semantic indexing and collaborative development. A good SEO should have the ...
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'New Moon' Trailer Tease Goes Interactive!
MTV.com - USA
It's not quite Web 3.0 tech, but it's a step above Web 2.0; why don't we call this Web 2.1? First, here's your 14 second tease of the "New Moon" trailer ...

Been there, bought the anti-capitalist T-shirt
Wired.co.uk - London,UK
The open source movement is a clear example. Sharing (web 2.0) and becoming one (web 3.0) will be the new owning. We Are Numbers fits in perfectly.

New ad tool can read your mind AND predict the future (sort of)
Revolution Magazine - UK
LONDON - OpenAmplify, the web 3.0 company, has launched technology that allows online advertisers to 'read the minds' of social networkers to predict if ...

GoIP Global, Inc. (GOIG) China Merger Update
FOXBusiness - USA
In addition, this company also creates and operates a cluster of web portals based on emerging Web2.0 and Web 3.0 frameworks to target global ethnical ...

Micro Focus Australian appointments
iTWire - Australia
... service its customers “at a time when the IT industry is pushing barrows full of new and distracting concepts – Green, Cloud, Web 3.0, to name a few. ...

Micro Focus Appoints New Account Directors In Australia
PRWire (press release) - Sydney,NSW,Australia
“A succession of Y2K, ERP, Web and legacy modernisation projects over the ... full of new and distracting concepts – Green, Cloud, Web 3.0, to name a few. ...

Symblogogy: Bud-A-Bing - Befriend Microsoft's New Search Platform
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
In an executive conference dubbed WEB 3.0 (because the conference promoters think something major is happening at the intersection of tech and media, ...

What is the Web 3.0? « PI Library Blog
By mshires
This very interesting scholarly article talks about the emergence of the Web 3.0 and how it will affect publishing and finding research online. The story mentions many popular online social networking sites like Facebook and Wikipedia. ...
PI Library Blog - http://www.pi.ac.ae/weblogs/library/

Be Familiar with Your Liking and Disliking by Magnificent Web 3.0 ...
Welcome a new web service that is recognized as Web 3.0 browser. By the way of this web service, you will achieve better, faster and easier searches. Sometimes for opening a page you type complex sentence, in place of multiple searches, ...
Search Engine Optimization Methods - http://www.seosemway.com/

WordPress Design | OS X Optimizations | Web 3.0 Technology.com
By Matt
Professional WordPress Design | Monolingual is a Open Source utility for Mac OS X that removes all the not-needed languages from your computer, freeing up hundreds of megabytes. My Mac mini is going “laggy” with the mouse jumping around ...
Web 3.0 Technology.com - http://web30technology.com/

WordPress Design | WordPress Plugin Releases for 08/16 | Web 3.0 ...
By Perurry
Professional WordPress Design | New Plugins Post Event You often ask how could you create event using wordpress, organize jobs meeting, party or holidays with your friends and contact them easily ? Then “Post Event” is THE events plugin ...
Web 3.0 Technology.com - http://web30technology.com/

Science magazine and JoVE partnership « ScienceRoll
By berci.mesko@gmail.com (Bertalan Meskó)
... Surgery (12), Syndrome (16), Technology (14), Ted Talks (6), Telemedicine (3), This week (8), twitter (52), Video (170), Virtuality (40), Visualization (10), Web 2.0 (685), Web 3.0 (8), Webicina (49), Webinar (4), What's on the web? ...
ScienceRoll - http://scienceroll.com/

Web 3.0 Installing the Plumbing ISN
A set of behind-the-scenes technologies strives for real-time, automated intelligence gathering and analysis and could change the way we share information ...

just good history on the social development on the web

2009-07-29T11:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a really good presentation on webs 1-3 by Sabin Buraga:

Why Web 3.0?

View more documents from Sabin Buraga.

library 4.0 is

2009-07-29T11:11:00.000-07:00

By and by, I now venture this:

Library 4.0 is when libraries don't truck in books anymore, as we know books now. Library 4.0 is the library after the widespread integration of smart objects and the "Internet of Things". Post semantic web. When atoms start schlepping usable bits.

Library 5.0 is a nonsensical term at present. So you can talk about previous library 'versions' up to 4.0 rationally, but beyond that we start to slip into the ontological bleed of the techno-social singularity.

Back to work.

web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0; presentations too

2009-07-29T05:54:00.000-07:00

This is neat and tidy (though I don't agree with it completely):

(via: http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/)

Lots of other stuff there on 3.0 -- some slideshares and discussion.

In the above, we've got widget hosting services (iGoogle, etc.) as part of a 3.0 scheme... these belong still in Web 2.0. Mid-to-late 2.0 developments. Don't nobody jump too quick. For the barest beginnings of yr semantic Web world, look to WolframAlpha. But that's the thing with all this -- we can't, on our blogs or in our magazine articles or books, decree what Web 3.0 is or will be or ought to be. These 'versions' of the Web get defined slowly, building up like coral. Folks do stuff, that stuff is cool, that cool stuff gets popular, the way folks use the Web changes, then we all look back and say "wow -- that's Web x.x"!

semantic web, 29 July AM

2009-07-29T05:46:00.000-07:00

Notes from web trawling (more):

What of Yahoo! News, Delicious, BOSS & More? Innovation & the ...
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
Yahoo's search team has done more to support the open standards and semantic web work that we love so much than any other major vendor on the market. Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service and Search Monkey markup are incredibly ...
ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/

The Semantic Puzzle | Knowledge Management and the Semantic Web
By Helmut Nagy
When you read about the Semantic Web you are confronted right away with connections to creating knowledge and knowledge management. But in my understanding the Semantic Web is a technical thing and knowledge management is primarily a ...
The Semantic Puzzle - http://blog.semantic-web.at/

Web 3.0, I defy you « jasminembla
By jasminembla
and have no taste whatsoever for that increasingly annoying web phenomenon called the Web 3.0, orSemantic Web. Bleh, bleh, bleh. It means I'm not that chuffed by social media which is primarily intended for pure networking… ...
jasminembla - http://jasminembla.wordpress.com/

| @stuartgh
By Stuart
Thanks for the link, but since it was me who asked the question about how to get the semantic web to actually happen, I should point out it was a bit of a leading question – it's a perception I encounter a lot, and I wanted an answer I ...
@stuartgh - http://www.stuart-hall.com/

The Semantic Puzzle | New W3C Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF ...
By Tassilo Pellegrini
SWEET TOOLS. Sweet Tools is a comprehensive collection of tools and applications for the Semantic Web. It is maintained by Mike Bergman with help from the Semantic Web Company. [more] ...
The Semantic Puzzle - http://blog.semantic-web.at/

Sig.ma - Uncovering & Maximizing The Web Of Data
KillerStartups.com
Sig.ma is self-described as “a data aggregator for the semantic web”. It aims to leave its mark by providing users with large scale semantic indexing, ...
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Semantic Technologies could link up UK learning
University of Southampton
A new report authored by ECS academics proposes using Semantic Web Technologies to link higher and further education learning and teaching repositories in ...
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Mark Watson's opinions on Java, Ruby, Lisp, AI, and the Semantic ...
By Mark Watson, author and consultant
Mark Watson's opinions on Java, Ruby, Lisp, AI, and the Semantic Web. I am a consultant living in the Mountains of Central Arizona. I am an author of 15 published books covering Artificial Intelligence (AI), Java, C++, Lisp, Linux, ...
Mark Watson's opinions on Java,... - http://markwatson.com/blog/

Semantic Discussion Heats Up; Critics Call Up Wittgenstein ...
By admin
There's been a great deal of discussion regarding the wide spread adoption of Semantic web standards now that Google, Yahoo and Bing have admitted their.
Oxford SEO Studies Blog - http://oxfordseo.com/blog/

No data here – just Linked Concepts « paul walk's weblog
By paul
The Semantic Web community has been notorious for its poor marketing over the past decade. Now just when it seems the community has found the right balance between technology and mass appeal it feels like people are trying to rip away ...
paul walk's weblog - http://blog.paulwalk.net/

YUL News » Blog Archive » Apply for the W.P. Scott Chair in e ...
By Christina Pringi
A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services,semantic web or ...
YUL News - http://www.yorku.ca/yul/news/

IT Strategy for Ireland | bluereek
By Barry O'Gorman
Delighted to see reference to semantic web – not really that surprising after €25m of government investment. I just picked out one small detail from the report (p45): The Government should appoint a high level CTO with the authority to ...
bluereek - http://www.bluereek.com/

semantic web, 29 July

2009-07-29T05:40:00.000-07:00

Notes from web trawling:

Web 3.0 design and functionality
By admin
Read this article: Web 3.0 design and functionality.
DevEzine - http://devezine.com/

Kevin Kelly - “Web 3.0″ | Cuatro-P | Four-P
By admin
Northern California Grantmakers & The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Present: Web & Where 2.0+ Feb. 14th, 2008 Session #11 Kevin.
Cuatro-P | Four-P - http://www.cuatro-p.com/

Pete Codella | Digital Public Relations | Why PR professionals ...
By Pete Codella, APR
Pete Codella | Digital Public Relations | Cision recently published a white paper on Web 3.0 in which it reports: Establishing a strong, authentic presence of your own on social media sites, blogs,
Pete Codella's Blog - http://www.petecodella.com/

Smart Traffic Review Smart-traffic.co.uk
By Michael Tedder
... search engine optimization has changed a lot since the time of web 1.0 and any good seo company should be up-to-date with what's going on and if there as good as us then they would have already started web 3.0 techniques. ...
DirectorySubmissions.Eu - http://directorysubmissions.eu/news/

Write, edit, blog: Five key questions every journalism student ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Andy Bull)
What can they tell you about Web 3.0, for example? What views do they have on the replacement for Twitter? Do you blog, tweet and use RSS? If they don't, they aren't part of the conversation. And a journalist who is not a part of the ...
Write, edit, blog - http://writeeditblog.blogspot.com/

JM Field Marketing Announces the Launch of Its Latest Website Design
The Open Press (press release) - USA
The new and improved interactive marketing website has undergone a complete redevelopment using the latest Web 3.0 technology and applications. ...

End to End Mobile Web Services Architect
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
5 plus years experience in mobile web application programming, Android, web 2.0, web 3.0, semanticweb, widgets, AJAX , Java, RSS, etc. ...

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Weather: finally wet
Listening: Mary Gauthier, "Your Sister Cried"
Reading: Mossflower, B. Jacques

bldg 3 pew

2009-07-24T18:39:00.000-07:00

Databytes has:

A recent Pew study shows how Americans are currently using their mobile technologies, the study shows people are using these technologies and gadgets to:

collaborate with others and share content
connect with others and share content
for entertainment purposes
are dedicated wireless access users and like the convenience of information as you go
perform lite informational search requests
Right now, according to this study, 42 % of the population has not fully embraced this technology, so the question we should all be asking ourselves is "How are we servicing the 58% percent that are?"

do believe I quote from that same study in the book... very good stuff from Pew. It sets us up to re-imagine libraries post-2.0, after communities-of-interest agreen on folksonomic standards, after everybody's got their social media map well worked out...

semantic web, 23 july

2009-07-23T08:40:00.000-07:00

Notes from web trawling:

Venuto: Semantic Magic—Infusing Web Content With Meaning
Minonline (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
By Domenic Venuto Razorfish is very interested in the semantic Web and the opportunities it provides to our publishing clients. The term semantic technology ...
See all stories on this topic

Matt Mullenweg And Dries Buytaert Probably Separated At Birth
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Faceted search sounds a bit like contextual search (or the promise of the Semantic Web) to me. The Wikipedia's entry for faceted search offers more details. ...
See all stories on this topic

f»dforward Introduces Recommendation Web Service for Smart Lateral ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA
... using trails of people across the web to distill the best destinations for certain topics; the semantic web, used to allow connections between similar ...
See all stories on this topic

Programming the Semantic Web
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
By Anand Narayanaswamy The promise of the semantic web–in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web–is not just a technical possibility, ...

Wichtiger neuer Semantic Web Standard zum Regelaustausch vom W3C ...
PresseAnzeiger (Pressemitteilung) - Germany
(PA) Berlin, 21.7.09 - Das World Wide Web (W3C) Konsortium hat kürzlich den neuen ... welcher einer aus Corporate Semantic Web Industrie-Sicht wichtiger ...

Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web - Off Madison Ave
Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web · You must have flash to see this embedded document. (download). Click here to download: Document.pdf (1462 KB). Posted by email. Comments (0). Leave a comment... To leave a comment on this posterous, ...
Off Madison Ave - http://offmadisonave.posterous.com/

The Tetherless World Weblog » Data.gov Datasets Translated in RDF!
By li
We publish the RDF data in two alternative ways: (i) a collection of linked partition files in RDF/XML for users to browse the dataset and dereference the URIs using semantic web browsers, and (ii) one big N-TRIPLE file (data.nt) ...
The Tetherless World Weblog - http://tw.rpi.edu/weblog/

W3C Semantic Web Activity News - ISWC Workshop on Semantic Web ...
By Susie Stephens
The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of ...
W3C Semantic Web Activity News - http://www.w3.org/blog/SW

Venuto: Semantic Magic—Infusing Web Content With Meaning :: MinOnline
Razorfish is very interested in the semantic Web and the opportunities it provides to our publishing clients. The term semantic technology can be confusing as it includes a growing range of developments that attempt to use structure and ...
MinOnline :: Breaking News & Views - http://www.minonline.com/

Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > Automating watchdog reporting
I want to focus mostly on the potential of the semantic Web to enhance research on government officials' conflicts of interest, often described as “government ethics.” Journalists who want to investigate such conflicts are told to ...
NiemanWatchdog.org - http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/

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Listening: Fergie
Weather: cloudy, a break from the heat. hope for rain.

attributes of librarian 3.0

2009-07-22T08:52:00.000-07:00

Allan Cho has observed (07) that we need this here set of attributes to be "librarians 3.0":

(1) Institutionalization – Creating the right culture. Flexible hours and attractive salaries, without micromanagement while encouraging working in teams and individual praise and recognition for their accomplishment. The key to retaining these employees is the quality of relationships they have with their managers - Gen X and Y's see their work demand a better balance in their work and personal lives.
(2) Innovation – Doing things differently – Innovative services will mean taking-the-service to the clients. An example would be “Librarian With a Latte” program from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

(3) Imagination – Changing the rules. Collaboration with a wide range of information providers, where rethinking of the catalogue means it is no longer relevant in its current form – the catalogue should be a “one-stop shop” for searching resources, providing access beyond local collections, and to different types of resources in a seamless way

(4) Ideation – A Culture that encourages ideas – In creating the appropriate working environment, it is necessary to be also supported by professional associations.

(5) Inspiration – Doing things differently – As competition increases for the future workforce, ongoing professional development as opposed to formal training in a library school is necessary. Already free web-based instruction similar to the popular Five Weeks to a Social Library are already popping up.
So what does this all mean? It might sound like an eye-rolling cliche: information professionals of the future will have to be prepared for lifelong learning. This is a challenge for many professionals, who argue that their plates are already full to the brim. What to do? The authors leave us with a daunting reference from Charles Darwin:
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

woodhead publishing

2009-07-22T08:10:00.000-07:00

Just a note that Woodhead has a more complete order page for the book now:
http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1868&ChandosTitle=1
Reposting:

This item is in: Chandos > Internet and web > Web 2.0 and 3.0
Building Library 3.0: Issues in Creating a Culture of Participation
Woody Evans, Tarrant County College, USA
- a primer for Library 2.0, and concrete steps available to libraries seeking to catch up to their web-savvy patrons
- detailed and critical examinations of social networking sites, and their potential for libraries outreach
- studies the actions librarians can take right now to prepare for the ‘border-bleeding’ between physical and virtual collections
- prepares libraries to use Web 2.0 tools as an incubator for increasing library relevancy in a Web 3.0 world
This book is written for information professionals and librarians trying to implement and manage Web 2.0 in their physical and online collections. Paying careful attention to the implementation of social web applications, mobile computing, and RFID and QR Code technology, the book details both how to make these technologies work for libraries and also explores why libraries must gain ground in the important new territories of Web 2.0. The changing relationships between information seekers, the information being sought, and the professional information gatekeepers is of great importance in this change, and this book explains not just the use of the technology to reach information seeking communities, but also the profound ways in which such relationships will change the nature of librarianship.
ISBN 1 84334 497 1
ISBN-13: 978 1 84334 497 1
July 2009
210 pages 234 x 156mm paperback
£49.50

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About the author
Woody Evans is a librarian at Tarrant County College in Arlington, Texas. As a librarian and private researcher, he has worked for military, corporate, and academic organizations. He has written for American Libraries, Library Journal, Searcher, ONLINE, Information Today, and others. His current research interests include the cultural aspects of information seeking and evaluation. Contact him through woodyevans.com.
Titles which may also be of interest:
Web 2.0 Knowledge Technologies and the Enterprise
Do You Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 and Libraries
Contents
PART 1 BASICS
PART 2 THE PEOPLE’S WEB
PART 3 QUALITY AND METTLE
PART 1 BASICS
Library 2.0: the fundamentals
- What is Web 2.0 for?
- Blogs: flagship of the social web
- Web 2.0 in the Library
- The dawn of the semantic web
New library users
- Bald babies, gray grannies
- Bricks to bits
- Hackers are old hat
PART 2 THE PEOPLE’S WEB
Folksonomic exchanges: authority of the people
- Taking care with tags
- Getting back out of the box
Social networking: making it work
- Preening your feathers and picking your ticks
- Social networking, suddenly serious
- Good practice: how to
- Two samples: libraries doing it right
- Detailing Facebook
- Your library, its network
- How to set it up
- How to use it at the reference desk
Mobile life and QR Code
- People using their phones
- Quick Code
- A push to patrons’ phones
Second Life and other massively multi-user environments
- Other MMORPGs
- Games and their worlds
- Second Life Library
- Librarians as virtual escorts
- Learn French
Arphids: promise and dangers
- Smart tags on smart books
- Hacking, playing, and phreaking out: is this real-world or exercise? Over?
- A speculative near-future scenario
- Back to the real world
PART 3 QUALITY AND METTLE
Fundamentally good service
- This is for the public good, Mofo
- We help people
- We work with information
- We teach

semantic web librarian jobs

2009-07-22T06:32:00.001-07:00

"Semantic web" is peeking its head out in library job descriptions now... @ York University:

A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services, semantic web or cyberinfrastructure is required. The Chair must have demonstrated success in directing and conducting research or a large project. As a member of the YUL complement, the successful candidate will contribute in an area of the libraries suited to the candidate’s area of expertise.

The three-point-oh thing is coming (though I think it won't have that name when it gets here good).

semantic web, 22 july

2009-07-22T06:28:00.000-07:00

Notes from web trawling:

New World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Rule Interchange Format (W3C ...
TMCnet - USA
Due to the innovations made possible by the Internet, the World Wide Web, and, most recently, the Semantic Web, there is now even greater opportunity for ...

Startup Watch: Five you should follow
Mass High Tech - Boston,MA,USA
Socialtality: Founded in 2007, Socialtality is a semantic web application that reviews the user's presence and performance in the social web (blogs, forums, ...

Senior House Democrat says lawmakers could miss deadline to pass ...
Gaea Times - Kolkata,West Bengal,India
What's next Surgical facemasks igorgold Rather than controlling data through format compliance as exercised by a mysterious info power elite, Semantic web ...

New Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) Standard Published
Targetwire (press release) - Oakham,England,UK
The Corporate Semantic Web research group at the Freie Universitaet Berlin has been actively involved in this standardization effort. Prof. ...

YUL News » Blog Archive » Apply for the W.P. Scott Chair in e ...
By Christina Pringi
A strong commitment to research in any relevant area of e-librarianship such as: e-learning, digital collections, collaborative web spaces, social software, interactive and integrative online services, semantic web or ...
YUL News - http://www.yorku.ca/yul/news/

wearable web 3 & 4

2009-07-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject later), but the main idea is that since we can't 'gender' the Web, it remains for the Web to increasingly disrupt basic identity categories of us... that is, the tabs that we use to build up identity (gender, race or ethnicity, languages, others) will be subverted and (forgive the term) fractalized by the Web's presence in/on our bodies. There's something important here about the body really becoming a proving ground now for Haraway's feminist cyborgs, but I haven't thought it through yet...

wearable web 2

2009-07-22T06:00:00.000-07:00

Some not yet fully connected thoughts about this:

Localization of the Web in the body is... well, it mashes up 'global and local' (in the Zygmunt Bauman type sense, and in just the general 'common sense' sense). Localizes the whole. Gives the whole a seat at the head of the table in your own head.

The app / invention in this video flips the QR Code vector for virtual/physical book hybrids I promote in the book and more or less obviates any previous "flat" phone apps like Kaywa and Semacode... Or does it just increase the reach and use of QR Code? Not sure yet.

If the Web is becoming part of the body, might we have to begin asking things about it that help to code or identify it in terms of other body categories.... thinking of gender, health, ethnicity... Can we begin to talk of a "feminine" or "masculine" web if we look at the total of all the terms and descriptors for all "objects" online and say that on balance there is more of shift toward this or that gender? Can we talk about the web as medicine, if the info we access on/in/through the body gets us the info that helps to treat illness?

More laters.

Listening: DeVotchKa, "curse your little heart"

Weather: Hard and hot.

web 3.0, 21 july

2009-07-22T05:45:00.000-07:00

Notes from web trawling:

Second Thoughts: Reply to Glyn Moody, Three Years Later
By Prokofy Neva
Web 3.0 and the remainders of Web 2.0, whether you like it or not, will be a story of a big fork away from opensource occurs, because it simply doesn't work *for enough people*, and over to proprietary coded platforms that secure IP in ...
Second Thoughts - http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/
10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect
By Josh Catone
And, how easy is it to create a fake female identity on FB? C'mon! Fail!! Web 3.0 is about trust. FB profiles are not trustworthy... Darin Gerhardson. Follow me on http://www.twitter.com/VegasClub. The best VIP services. Thanks. ...
Mashable! - http://mashable.com/
Deal Radar 2009: Confidela | Sramana Mitra on Strategy
By SramanaMitra
Shailendra on Forbes Column 2009: Open Source Means Business; Do you think is bing fulfills web 3.0criteria? Be… Shailendra on Web 3.0 & the Semantic Web; With Gujrat sharing its border both with Pakistan … ...
Sramana Mitra on Strategy - http://www.sramanamitra.com/
IJKEDM - Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content ...
By gtorodelvalle
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wearable web 1

2009-07-21T19:33:00.000-07:00

re: this vid, C R-B has:

The brainchild of Pranav Mistry, a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, the Sixth Sense is a wearable device that will enable us to gain seamless access to information…wherever we are! All I can say after watching the video is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant AND I want one! You’ve really got to see it to believe it, so rather than me attempting to communicate the brilliance of theSixth Sense, watch the video!
As a librarian and book lover I’m particularly excited about the impact the Sixth Sense will have on how we select, evaluate and tag books (5.53 mins into the film).

right on!

after 2.0 embed

2009-07-15T19:29:00.000-07:00

Here we go with slides:

Life After 2.0

View more presentations from librarianmer.

Keep going, MF.

after 2.0 comes 3.0 if we get 2.0 right

2009-07-15T19:23:00.000-07:00

Heavy D was at this Farkas talk in Chicago -- wish I coulda been too -- but he sent the slides link:

http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com/page/Life+After+2.0

Very relevant stuff -- and the kinds of issues I sink down into and get real nasty with in the book. There are ways to do 2.0 sloppy and bad. Meredith is exactly right on to raise these questions.

You are now invited to do 2.0 brilliantly*.

Weather: the 'weather' has been burned from the face of Texas. There is no more weather. There is only breezeless heat.

Listening: "Summertime Clothes", Animal Collective

Reading: Kallistos Ware and J.K. Rowling

*Because if we don't get this right, the reality of semantic search will eat our lunch finally and completely. Sorta. Well, more details in book of course...

blog reboot

2009-07-14T19:28:00.000-07:00

In the next few weeks this blog will get a reboot as the book is actually published. I'll be treating it as a working 'open notebook' for items relevant to L2 and L3 concerns. Hope you'll join in!

proofs at hand

2009-06-08T10:56:00.001-07:00

The proofs have been returned -- couple minor spacing & comma tweaks, and I think we're ready for paper and ink. On reflection, seems I can turn a purple phrase now and again, but what the hell. I'm getting older.

a blog to follow

2009-05-27T19:09:00.000-07:00

Looks like András Molnár is thinking about these 3.0 issues too... he's blogging about RFID / arphids, microblogging, & geolocative matters from a library / information science angle.

Good stuff there!

wolfram alpha epistemological note

2009-05-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

Alpha is live now. I've written about it for InfoToday (link), and though my piece there spins a bit on the issue of epistemology, at the end of the day Alpha is a dern good reference and computational tool. That's what it's meant for, after all. And its quality will improve (see link to help it grow/improve).

The 'bigger' questions about knowingness and truthiness, etc. are (though important in the grand scheme!) unfairly localized on this engine. It doesn't claim to get its users to Truth, you know. I guess it's understandable that we web searchers drift to such questions when faced with such a fantastic machine.

Reminds me of a line V. Rev. Dr. Hegwood once used about ninjas... "they must exist because they're not online..."

So, Alpha came a bit too late to make it into the book (I did manage to pop off a mention in a late revision, but that was still before Alpha was live), but it does help my main case. Wolfram Alpha is one of the early popular semantic search tools.

They'll start coming out quicker now.

u.s.a amazon ready

2009-05-20T11:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Library-3-0-Woody-Evans/dp/1843344971/

Here's the main Amazon site for ordering the book.

2.0 into 3.0

2009-05-13T21:45:00.000-07:00

How do we transition from 2.0 into 3.0?

The main thrust of my book deals with how we do this from the service side. To go a step deeper, I think it useful to reflect on projects where COIs are starting to edge out into schema use.

Look at STAR-TIDES for a start.

late winter update

2009-03-02T19:51:00.001-08:00

Final draft is in. Dr. G. Jones has been great to work with -- he's, friendly, serious, and he expects and respects due dates and deadlines, and is also courteous and 'with it'. I think my draft is the best thing I could produce at this time. It represents some 5 years (well, in some ways you could count longer to 15+) of struggle and service in libraries. I've done my best, but time and experience may prove me wrong (or wrongheaded) on some points, and I am prepared for that.

But, again, I do feel this is the best book I could have produced on these themes at this time.

I do hope you get something out of it. God knows I put plenty into.

Now I await the cover image!

nearly there

2009-01-14T19:20:00.001-08:00

Final draft due this week. I'm revising tonight, adding in last-minute interviews, and getting her ready for the good folks at Chandos.

Reading Jessamyn's blog today, thinking about the deeper reasons for my dislike of Second Life (well, I tried liking it), and catching up on the news from Gaza.

I think my eyes are about to crack. I know I need some sleep.